Vehicle-spring



(No Model.)

C. U. HAYES.

VEHIULE SPRING.

No. 398,156. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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CHARLES C. HAYES, OF PENN YAN, NElV YORK.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,156, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed October 13, 1888. Serial No. 288,006. (No model.)

To aZZ who/rt 13/ may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. Haves, a citizen of the United States, residing at Penn Yan, in the county of Yates and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a hill, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures. of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in vehicle-sprin gs of that class in which two or more semi-elliptic springs are employed; and it has for its objects to improve upon previous devices of this character, to dispense with the rubbers usually employed in springs for running-gear to vehicles, and to improve in other details, as will be more fully explained hereinafter.

The novelty resides in the peculiar combinations and the construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l. is'a perspective view illustrating my improved spring shown in connection with an axle. Fig. 2 is a fractional top plan. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the spring-cap.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates an axle of any ordinary or wel 1- n own'con stru otion,,an d provided with the usual head-block, B. Centrally secured to this head-block is the semi-elliptic spring 0, the ends of which are secured between the ears (1 of the spring caps or hangers D, which, as shown in Fig. 3, are each formed with four lugs, h, each provided with a hole, 0, as shown.

E E are two other semi-elliptic springs, the ends of which are secured to the caps D between the lugs or cars a. It will be observed that these three semi-elliptic springs are so arranged with relation to each other that as they are compressed they will not interfere with each other, the two outer springs passing one on each side of the spring 0, as will be readily understood. By this arrangement I am enabled to hang a wagon-body lower down, doing away with rubbers and the like, usually employed to keep the springs apart.

Of course the single spring may be on top and the two outside ones below; but this would be a mere reversal and within the scope of my invention, and I have not shown it in this way.

Importance is attached to the bowed form of springs in this connection, and to the fact that the center spring is formed of a single section instead, of two sections, as has been proposed, and that the ends be attached to the caps D and at its center to the block on the axle. By this arrangement I obtain greater movement of the springs and each spring serves to guide the others in their vertical movement.

W'hat I claim as new isl. The combination, with the axle, of the central concave spring, C, a single section clipped to the center of the axle near the center of its length, with the ends free of the axle, the caps D 011 the free ends of said spring, and the convex side springs, EE, having their ends pivoted in said caps, said springs being disconnected from each other and from the central spring, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the axle and the block B thereon near the center thereof, of the central bowed spring, 0, a' single section clipped to the block by the same clips that secure the said block to the axle, with the ends free, the hangers or caps D, pivoted on the free ends of said spring and each 0 formed with four cars, a, at equal distances apart, and the two bowed side springs, E E, independent of each other and of the central spring and secured between the outer cars, a, of said caps, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES C. HAYES.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. EATON, ALFRED CRosBY. 

